The Brunswick County Grand Jury under the direction of Judge Ola Lewis with prosecutor Rex Gore and courtroom clerk Michelle Warth returned the following indictments during a Superior Court session on Sept. 14:

SUNSET BEACH—Police are investigating a theft by deception incident reported Sept. 24 at a convenience store on Seaside Road.

The store is out $109 after a man entered the store and told the cashier the store’s owner, whom he referred to by name, had authorized him to cash a prepaid American Express card there. He gave the clerk a sealed envelope in exchange for cash. The card turned out to be fraudulent and the clerk found she had been scammed, police said.

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.

The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.